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Firm Making Concrete Additive from Mixed Plastic Waste Opens

First Plant in Australia

n a significant global expan- Located in the Melbourne suburb of holders from government, academia,
sion, Costa Rica–based CRDC Tottenham, the new facility will start industry, and nonprofits celebrated
Global Ltd. yesterday opened with the capacity to process one met- the plant’s grand opening on April 28.
its first RESIN8 construction ric tonne of plastic per hour, but CRDC Warren Overton, CEO of the Australia
materials production facility in Aus- has ambitious plans to expand this as New Zealand Recycling Platform (AN-
tralia. The firm’s patented, low-carbon demand increases. ZRP), called the facility’s opening a
technology uses shredded, mixed When CRDC first announced its plan “pivotal moment” for e-waste manage-
plastic waste as a component to make last summer to open a RESIN8 plant in ment in Australia.
more sustainable concrete.
Melbourne, it said, “the facility’s mod- Shane Ramsey, managing director of
Founded six years ago by Canadian ular production lines present ample CRDC Australia, noted that Melbourne
native Donald Thomson, CRDC (which opportunities for capacity augmenta- is now the fourth city to install a RES-
initially stood for Center for Regen- tion simply by incorporating additional IN8 facility. “Thanks to the strong sup-
erative Design & Collaboration) uses a lines.” This, it noted, aligns seamlessly port from ANZRP and the Victorian
process that accepts any type of plas- with the medium-term objectives of government, we’re transforming local
tic waste (resins 1 to 7) and converts the venture, which envisions at least plastic waste into valuable, eco-friend-
it into a range of climate-resilient con- two large-scale RESIN8 plants operat- ly building materials right here in our
crete additives and eco-aggregates, ing within Melbourne alone. community,” he said during the launch
which it markets and produces under Stakeholders bear witness to “piv- ceremony.
the RESIN8 name.
otal” e-waste management moment. CRDC Global in June 2022 opened the
Initial capacity is one tonne/hour. world’s first RESIN8 plant in San Jose,
Thomson and more than 100 stake-

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